Author | : Robert Tavernor |
File Size | : 53,8 Mb |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 01 January 2007 |
ISBN | : 0300124929 |
Pages | : 270 pages |
Smoot s Ear by Robert Tavernor Book PDF Summary
Measures are the subject of this unusual book, in which Robert Tavernor offers a fascinating account of the various measuring systems human beings have devised over two millennia. He discusses measures in our own time - when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.